【推荐1】It all started when we were at school on a Monday. It was after lunch time and we had just finished this week’s maths exam and Stephen, Vivian, Krystal and I were correcting our _______ again. We were just getting ready to do English when everything started _______. Things were flying everywhere. It was an EARTHQUAKE!

Stephen, Vivian, Krystal and I all _______ for cover while everyone else stood there, too _______ to move. Even the _______ boys in the class didn’t move! It shook like jelly and it was the scariest earthquake ever! A bookshelf fell on the _______ of the girls. The heater fell on the boys. It was a disaster! So far, Stephen, Vivian, Krystal and I were the only people _______. We were all as scared as if we had seen a _______.

The earthquake went for a couple more _______ and then we ran into the corridor and checked if anyone was alive. Everyone but us was dead. We went outside and all the ________ were wrecked. All except one.

We ran into the house and it was as ________ as ice. The disgusting cobwebs(蜘蛛网)touched our skin. It was a nightmare! The house was old and rotten and it ________ like really bad body smell. We ran ________ and we heard someone shouting. We ________ the door. There was a girl in the room. We guessed she was about eight years old. “Help me”, she shouted in a frightened voice, I was just about to help her when I heard my alarm clock ringing. It was just a ________!

【推荐2】When I was in my college, I have a full class schedule and a part-time job. I_________had time for exercise.

What’s worse, I ate much fast food. Undoubtedly, I was _________ .

After graduation, I decided to go to the_________. Together with a friend, I began to _________ regularly. I was very satisfied. We went to the gym every day. My friend, however, became_________. One day, he suggested that we take up a sport.

I was not _________ , so I didn’t want to take up a sport. And no one was going to change my mind. However, after a few weeks, I stepped onto an outdoor racquetball(壁球) court unwillingly. I hit the ball, sending it flying in every direction except for the direction that I had _________

But as I was beginning to feel comfortable, my _________suggested we play tennis instead. Tennis? I can’t play tennis! I was strongly against my friend’s new_________. However, weeks later, I found myself standing on a tennis court. Awkwardly, I __________after every ball that he served to me, completely __________about ninety percent of them, and hitting the rest into the woods and the other court.

The first few months were quite__________. But one day, as the ball came flying toward me, my racket and the ball finally met in what tennis players consider as the “sweet spot(最佳击球点) ”. I __________ in surprise as my return landed powerfully on the other side of the court, almost exactly where I had aimed. I finally learned how to play tennis!

Obviously, if I hadn’t stepped outside of my comfort zone, I would have never __________ how much I enjoyed tennis. I began to try new things willingly with a sense of__________.

【推荐3】I don’t talk with passengers on airplanes. My flight time is _______ for turning the pages of a good book. That changed, _______, on a flight from Tampa to Newark when I sat next to her ---the lady in Seat 26B.

After _______ my seat, I opened my book.

Then she _______me. “And where are you traveling to? Home or on vacation?”

“Heading home,” I closed my book. “You?”

“Oh, home, too,” she began, “I come from a(n) _______ family. Nine kids! I’m the oldest _______ alive---eighty-nine!” And then she laughed, joyfully. I wouldn’t have _______ she was nearly ninety, though.

“Good book?” she asked, pointing to my paperback.

“Yes. Do you read?”

“Oh, I don’t have _______ to read,” she replied.

I’m sixty years younger than 26B, yet she’s the one who’s too busy to read? What on earth could she be doing with her _______?

“Well,” she began, “I work at Costco. There are ________ nice people. There are also the ________ ones, but I enjoy them, too!” She laughed again, and I ________ her ability to not let negative energies affect her ________. I wondered how I could ________ that, too.

“What’s your secret,” I asked, “to sounding so ________ and healthy?”

“My husband died ten years ago,” she said, ________. “I thought to myself, I’m not going to just ________! That’s when I got my Costco job. I believe in being active.”

“Life is so good,” she ________, “I’m just excited every day to live it!”

I wanted that plane ride to reroute to California so I would have more time to learn about her energy for life. I became more ________ with each mile we flew.

I told myself, if someone who is eighty-nine years old can choose to live her life with such ________ and passion, I can, too. If you have the drive!

【推荐2】Sandy Freel has a disease of the eyes. “The doctor says I will be_______ within five years,” said Sandy. Recently, she also_______ her husband. She started a little free library _______ her husband, as they both loved to read.

One day, while walking in her neighborhood, Sandy_______an old bench (长凳) that she thought would make a nice addition to her _______. When she asked the gentleman who_______the bench if it was for sale, the man_______and told her that his wife who had passed away used to sit on it, drinking coffee and reading books.

Sandy_______ understood why he was unwilling to give it up and told him her story, saying if he ever changed his _______, she would love to buy it so that people would sit on it while reading in her library.

__________by Sandy’s story, the gentleman told her that he would __________it that Sunday so that he could also stop at her library to sit when he walked his dog. They both had__________in their eyes. “Now we both have a place to sit and__________our loved ones,” said Sandy.

After her husband’s death, Sandy had lived a__________life and she kept to herself most of the time. However, after starting her library, she had a new __________again.

“I don’t worry about whether any of the books will be __________ or not,” said Sandy, “because they are gifts to people who may feel__________and need a lift that day.” Even the local trash man__________from the library, often leaving behind candies to show his __________.

“I would__________anyone to stop by and experience the joy of books,” Sandy said.

【推荐3】Madison Williams was studying in her bedroom in Dublin, Ohio, in August 2016 when the door burst open. It was her mother, Leigh Williams, with a(an)______ story: “A little boy fell into a septic tank (化粪池), and no one can ______ him.” Then she made this ______ of her 13-year-old daughter: Can you help?

Madison and Leigh ran to a neighbor’s yard, where they found the boy’s ______ mother and other adults surrounding a septic tank opening. Its diameter was ______ wider than a basketball. The boy had ______ in and was drowning in the sewage (污水).

Madison quickly ______ the situation. She was the only one who could ______ through the small hole. Without ______, she told the adults, “Lower me in.” Inside, the tank was dark, and the air ______. In the process of finding the boy, her left wrist was injured by a hidden pole so ______ that the hand was useless. But Madison went on skimming the surface of the sewage, hoping to ______ the boy. “Every once in a while, I’d see his little toes she says. “Then I would try to grab them.” After several failed ______, she finally managed to grasp his foot tightly with her ______ hand. “Pull me up!” she shouted to the others above. Ten minutes after Madison had entered the tank, she and the boy were ______ out.

But the boy wasn’t out of ______. He had been taken away from oxygen long enough that he wasn’t breathing. He was ______ on his side, and an adult gave him several hard beats on the ______, one right after the other, until the boy coughed up liquids. It was only when Madison heard him cry that she knew he was all right.

It took Madison longer to ______ than the boy. She experienced months of physical treatment for her wrist, which, says neighbor Mary, made the girl’s actions more ______.